Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Urs Liska wrote: Am 18.01.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: My idea is that we have a basic set of stylesheets for the main types of scores — e.g., piano solo, organ solo, instrumental solo/part, choir, full score, etc. — which can be \include-d by the user to

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Mike Kilmer
Speaking as a newbie, I also love this idea, as I’m understanding it. I had been surprised not to find a template for the “lead sheets” I’ve been making. On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Tom Cloyd tomcloydm...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say that I like this idea a LOT. Like Urs' suggestion too.

Re: instrumentSwitch and addInstrumentDefinition use

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Keith, Thanks for adding the issue to the tracker — it’s a great starting place. You have to admit that this does (accidentally) make it sound a bit like you are looking for a convenient way to write music with no regard for the instrument. Not at all. I inhabit [at least] three roles

Re: instrumentSwitch and addInstrumentDefinition use

2015-01-18 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 07:29:39AM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Keith, I guess you enter the notes in concert pitch, then ? Yes — I can’t imagine entering it any other way and maintaining my sanity. :) I certainly understand that as being the most common need. However I am not a

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs (et al.), Maybe having it as a semi-official library would be more manageable? Sure… whatever works best! A suggestion regarding the interface: how about \include stylesheets/choral/octavo.ily” Okay. There could be a hierarchy of different building blocks, and the actual

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2015-01-19 um 09:44 schrieb Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Hi all, I had been surprised not to find a template for the “lead sheets” I’ve been making. Yes! Let’s start making a list of the “big picture” targets: piano solo instrument solo/part

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 01/18/2015 09:44 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Other obvious ones? Melody + chords (tunes, e.g. Irish or old-timey) Instrument + piano (accompanied instrument solo) ~crism -- Chris Maden, text nerd URL: http://crism.maden.org/ Surround hate and force it to surrender. GnuPG fingerprint: DB08

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:44:29 -0500 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Other obvious ones? choir (4 voices) + guitar chords (names) I have a set of templates that I currently use for this. I can define the melodies, and one or more lyrics for each melody. All is automatically

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I had been surprised not to find a template for the “lead sheets” I’ve been making. Yes! Let’s start making a list of the “big picture” targets: piano solo instrument solo/part orchestra score choir, a cappella choir plus piano piano + voice, art song

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Let’s start making a list of the “big picture” targets: piano solo instrument solo/part orchestra score choir, a cappella choir plus piano piano + voice, art song piano +

Re: Command Line call to LilyPond with PDF auto open

2015-01-18 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:58:53 -0800 Matthew James Briggs matthew.james.bri...@gmail.com wrote: Oops this is actually superfluous because the preview app on Mac OS X updates with any changes as soon as I click on it, so just leaving the pdf open when compiling works no problem. So do many

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Tom Cloyd
I have to say that I like this idea a LOT. Like Urs' suggestion too. Seems like this should just be a part of the package - kind of an adjunct to the exceptional documentation that has always been a part of Lily. Tom (classic guitar) On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Tom Cloyd

Re: box around notes

2015-01-18 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Klaus, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Klaus Blum benbigno...@gmx.de wrote: Hi David, one more big THANK YOU for your fast reply. You're very welcome! Yes, it was very helpful. I have updated music-boxer-stencil so that it works again with the boxEngraver. Finally I did some

Order of contexts over staves

2015-01-18 Thread Phil Holmes
I'm setting some music with temporary staves, and ensuring the the temporary staff is above the main staff using \new Staff \with { alignAboveContext = #label} I'm also using a dynamics context, which is created with \new Dynamics \with { alignAboveContext = label } The problem is that

Re: Command Line call to LilyPond with PDF auto open

2015-01-18 Thread Conor Cook
Thank you! I will look into that. I do actually use Frescobaldi for LP, now that I think of it. It's really only a problem for LaTeX and Gregorio, for me, I guess. Still, I will look into it. On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:50 AM, Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at

Re: best practice(s) for divisi choral works

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Following up on this thread from December… Attached is an example containing the choral parts from the first verse of my “Wither’s Carol”. (If you’re interested, you can find more information on the piece, including a recording, at http://kierenmacmillan.info/withers-carol/.) My goal

Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread David Sumbler
My current project is a quartet. The score and each of the 4 parts are in separate \book blocks. I have #(set-global-staff-size 16) before the score \book, and #(set-global-staff-size 20) before the first of the 4 part \book blocks which follow. Today I turned my attention to formatting the

Re: Command Line call to LilyPond with PDF auto open

2015-01-18 Thread Kevin Barry
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Conor Cook conor.p.c...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way on Windows to do so? Neither my program, Foxit, or the built-in allows that. Sumatrapdf is an auto-updating pdf reader for windows. Maybe take a look at that. Or use frescobaldi!

Re: Command Line call to LilyPond with PDF auto open

2015-01-18 Thread Conor Cook
Is there a way on Windows to do so? Neither my program, Foxit, or the built-in allows that. On Jan 18, 2015, at 2:01 AM, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:58:53 -0800 Matthew James Briggs matthew.james.bri...@gmail.com wrote: Oops this is actually

Re: Command Line call to LilyPond with PDF auto open

2015-01-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Jan 2015, at 07:54, Matthew James Briggs matthew.james.bri...@gmail.com wrote: When calling LilyPond from the command line (I'm on Mac OS X) like this exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond pathtomy.ly is there a flag to tell the program to open the

Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all! I recently sent a post about my choral piece, and had to *not* use my choral stylesheet. Seeing what the default output looks like lit a fire under my butt to get a stylesheet project going ASAP — I haven’t really seen a default Lilypond score (as opposed to tiny snippets) in at

Re: Is cross voice parenthesis arpeggios possible?

2015-01-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.01.2015 um 19:08 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2015-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Samuel DA MOTA da.mota@gmail.com: Hi, On the following documentation, it explains how to create arpeggios across notes in different voices.

Re: Is cross voice parenthesis arpeggios possible?

2015-01-18 Thread Samuel DA MOTA
Exactly, That's perfect. Thanks! Might be worth to add this example to the documentation, or at the very least to the LSR. What do you think? Regards, -- Sam On 18/01/2015, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Samuel DA MOTA da.mota@gmail.com: Hi, On

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, But is there perhaps a better way of getting the titles to appear the same size in the score and parts, despite the different staff sizes in the music that follows the titles? \markup \abs-fontsize … is your friend. =) Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ Kieren

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 11:25 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, But is there perhaps a better way of getting the titles to appear the same size in the score and parts, despite the different staff sizes in the music that follows the titles? \markup \abs-fontsize … is your

Is cross voice parenthesis arpeggios possible?

2015-01-18 Thread Samuel DA MOTA
Hi, On the following documentation, it explains how to create arpeggios across notes in different voices. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-as-lines#arpeggio I tried to tweak the example to get parenthesis arpeggios across voices, with no success. Can anyone

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, I am getting a bizarre result: the titles in the score are as specified in my version of bookTitleMarkup; but although the parts have the correct font-sizes, both vertical spacing of the lines and horizontal spacing of individual letters is abnormal, and is in proportion to the

Re: Is cross voice parenthesis arpeggios possible?

2015-01-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Samuel DA MOTA da.mota@gmail.com: Hi, On the following documentation, it explains how to create arpeggios across notes in different voices. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-as-lines#arpeggio I tried to tweak the example to

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread Noeck
Hi, if I am not mistaken, there was some discussion and a solution how to get the line space consistent for different settings of the staff space within the discussion about a new Mutopia tagline. Unfortunately, I can not find it anymore. But I think it involved having a zero baseline-skip:

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.01.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all! I recently sent a post about my choral piece, and had to *not* use my choral stylesheet. Seeing what the default output looks like lit a fire under my butt to get a stylesheet project going ASAP — I haven’t really seen a default

Re: Order of contexts over staves

2015-01-18 Thread Keith OHara
Phil Holmes writes: I'm setting some music with temporary staves, and ensuring the the temporary staff is above the main staff using \new Staff \with { alignAboveContext = #label} I'm also using a dynamics context, which is created with \new Dynamics \with { alignAboveContext =

Re: Is cross voice parenthesis arpeggios possible?

2015-01-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-18 19:35 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Am 18.01.2015 um 19:08 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2015-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Samuel DA MOTA da.mota@gmail.com: Hi, On the following documentation, it explains how to create arpeggios across notes in different voices.

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-18 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all! I recently sent a post about my choral piece, and had to *not* use my choral stylesheet. Seeing what the default output looks like lit a fire under my butt to get a stylesheet project going

Re: Is cross voice parenthesis arpeggios possible?

2015-01-18 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: I'm ashamed I couldn't figure how to use a function with an optional argument for it. Best I found is: #(define* (parenthesized-arpeggio #:optional (ctx Bottom)) #{ \override #ctx . Arpeggio.stencil = #ly:arpeggio::brew-chord-slur

Re: Order of contexts over staves

2015-01-18 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi again, How about : \version 2.19.15 myOssia = \relative c' { R1*2 \new Staff \with { alignAboveContext = #essai \magnifyStaff #5/7 } { c4 c c c } R1 R1*5 } myMusic = \relative c' { c1 c c c c c c c } myDynamics = { s1\f s s\p s\f s \break s s\p s\pp }

Re: Order of contexts over staves

2015-01-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Sunday, January 18, 2015 8:29 PM - Original Message - From: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 3:11 PM Subject: Order of contexts over staves I'm setting some music with temporary staves, and ensuring the

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-18 22:38 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 12:40 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, I am getting a bizarre result: the titles in the score are as specified in my version of bookTitleMarkup; but although the parts have the correct font-sizes,

Re: Is cross voice parenthesis arpeggios possible?

2015-01-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-01-18 23:11 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: I'm ashamed I couldn't figure how to use a function with an optional argument for it. Best I found is: #(define* (parenthesized-arpeggio #:optional (ctx Bottom)) #{ \override #ctx

Re: Order of contexts over staves

2015-01-18 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 3:11 PM Subject: Order of contexts over staves I'm setting some music with temporary staves, and ensuring the the temporary staff is above the main staff using \new

Re: Order of contexts over staves

2015-01-18 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Phil, Hi Trevor, If that helps here are other trials I was working on. Noting found yet though. \version 2.19.15 myOssia = \relative c' { c4 c c c } myMusic = \relative c' { c1 c \new Staff \with { \magnifyStaff #5/7 alignAboveContext = #label } \new Voice =

Re: instrumentSwitch and addInstrumentDefinition use

2015-01-18 Thread Keith OHara
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:54:48 -0800, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: I understand that in realistic cases you probably have the notes in one variable and options for arrangements in another parallel sequence flute_notes = {c'2 c'' } arrangementB = {s1*4

Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

2015-01-18 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 12:40 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, I am getting a bizarre result: the titles in the score are as specified in my version of bookTitleMarkup; but although the parts have the correct font-sizes, both vertical spacing of the lines and horizontal spacing of